Interesting Things about the Slow Cooker

Slow cookers are amazing cookware. They have the ability to reduce something as tough as tendons to chewy goodness in a matter of hours without reducing the braising liquid like an oven or a dutch oven. Man...that's gotta to win an award of something right? Anyway..have experimented with it while making my own version of roast pork. You know what? You just have to respect those roast pork makers. They really have the patience to watch the pork crackling really crackle. For me, I am still in the experimental stage of making the perfect roast pork. So good luck to me..

Kuching my Hometown...

Some views of Kuching

Being a Music Teacher

Most people tend to associate music teachers with frumpy ole maids or eccentric old men/young men too...and never as super hot babes or dudes...well..in a way..that's true I guess...you win some you lose some....that's the balance of life... in any case...it's mine anyway... I do admit I am not your cool dude next door nor do I crave to be one....but there are more to me than meets the eye ( I do admit a vision of me would fill your eyeballs cos there's a whole lot of me anyway) but that;s besides the point... right? well...I am like SOOOO DEAD WRONG!! people's impression do count.... I feel disgusted at myself... and yes..i Do have a weight issue... thankfully for me...the weight machines are still able to read my weight properly without doing a 480 degree rotation on the scale... How to solve that problem ler? Atkins is going to kill me.. Marie France doesn't want anything to do with me.. diet drinks are SOOO Bloody expensive...so I am left with something else... appetite reduction drugs and good ole taekwondo... (yeah...I have a taekwondo background)... why am I so fat after taekwondo...(well...it's a matter of balancing your meals and your exercise right? ) ..on my scale of meals vs exercise...I always eat more than I do exercise.. (boy...taekwondo makes my appetitie better) Ironic isn't it? But I am going back to taekwondo again...this time I am teaching the kids at my school... i wonder what would the other teachers feel about it? The resident music teacher is also the taekwondo instructor????!!!!??? well...if the Chinese kung fu masters can get away with it...so can I..I think.... But i do have to admit..kicking and punching something makes for a great way to release the pent-up frustrations inside of me... yeah....feel SOOOO Good...

The Lives of Others

Reading other people's blogs at 2:30 a.m. in the morning is most certainly an eye-opener in more than one... talking to CSM made me realize people's blogs are definitely well worth the read...espcially CSM's one... gave new dimensions to her...makes me want to blog more.. well..here I am now..pulling another all-nighter again...marking the Theory exams papers..nothing could be more boring and tedious....but then again...that's what the school is paying me for ..so I better deliver...

New Year..... A Strange New World..

The world is full of quixotic things.... both wonderful and fugly.... and my new year's resolutions reflect that uncertainty...but one thing is for certain... 2007 is my certifiable annus horribilis.. and so.... (Drum roll...) here are my resolutions...

• to reconnect to my past... (friends...events....relationships) in an attempt to shed light on my path in the years to come
• To lose some bloody weight.. (it's as much about aesthetics, economy and health)
• To achieve financial security...
• To find meself some inner strength and will to achieve the above..and then some.....

hmm...to achieve all that is quite an achievement...so all of you who term yourselves as me friends..please do help me achieve that...so help me God...

And A New Friend

today, I recieved a very surprising email from somebody whom I have not met or talked wid since 1999. hmmm....it was very nice getting an email from good ole Letti...my friend from the swimming club days...haih..those were the days...I am getting old, am I? Well.... this has given me new impetus to find out what actually happened to all the people from the graduating class of 1999 (I graduated later than the others...no fault of mine...) as I set about my next biggest move.... from an English teacher to a music teacher (teng teng teng.... drum rolls please....) next week...wish me the best of luck....everybody....

Carpe Diem

hmmm....what made me recover this blogger is that I have to do so in order to access Daniel's website on Sarikei, which is a good thing I presume. In about a month's time, I will finally have reached a full circle in my life. From young, I have always wanted to be a musician or a music teacher but as circumstances put it, I ended up as an English teacher for the past 7 years. Not that I did not like the job but it kinda felt empty inside. Most people have a pet job that they would like to do but I must thank the One up there for giving me the strength to finally do what I want to do (the pay is not bad at all): A Music Teacher.

Come June, I'll be moving to Kolej Yayasan Saad, which is a private school to take the position as the resident Brass and Woodwinds teacher (first one out of Sarikei, I presume since most of the folks back home like to take up piano lessons only). It's a dream job..for the time being...to be able to work with young musicians and improve myself in the process. So much to teach....

depression sets in......

         those incompetent office clerks have totally messed up my week.......talk about near-idiocy..simple stuff like putting on the correct date for the cheques also cannot do....other ppl get paid on the 24th....my check was dated like tomolo....sucks big time..anyway...my friendster account is growing .growing......

        A moment of silence for a friend of mine....although we have only met for like a few times, Dtk Marcus Raja is truely a friendly person..unassuming and from what I gather...a great father...I feel a great sense of loss for his family...should go to his house on sunday to check whether the body has arrived or not...I believe physical presence says it all....a card will simply not do on these occasions......[sigh].....

         had a great meeting with my altarservers today...finally I can get something done in this Nearthandal church youth groups..:) ..... maybe I should start work tomolo on the choir ..hahahahah....band practice..urghhhh...my boss wants me to practice on those reprehensible patriotic songs again..I hate marching to patriotic songs..except the marches by Sousa...those ROCKS!!!!......I am a band freak so forgive me....

          Love life is still non-existent..I am torn between a short term fulfilment and the inevitable long term ones....am I really that old???.....having a romantic interest in a gal 10 years younger than me leaves me with a bittersweet feeling...can't help feeling like a pedo at times..but is it wrong to have a romantic interest in somebody that young??..I am 28....[sigh] but I am no Michael Douglas...

Of the GHOST of last week past...

okie....so I forgot about my blog..well...here goes my life since I last blogged..last week was a killer week...talk about die-hard delinquents and rude students....being a teacher sometimes is harder than living itself..haih..well...on the brighter side (no hope no life..)made new friends...increased my friendster list (* yeah!!!)....looking at my friendster account really brightens up my day...cos it sorta is like a get-me-up tonic..looking ALL of friends...although the list is far from complete.....but I like every day...enough on my friendster...my mum is bugging me with her dreams again...hmmmm....bad omen? .....on LOVE ( that horrible word)...why do everybody just HAVE to ask whether I got a gf or not...is it THAT important ar? hmmmm? anyway...SUNDAY is another lazy day....Fr Al..said MASS..wonder where Fr Su went..he's been up to NAJU again....really wondering why he still believes in that?